Writing Quotes · Page 125

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

— Anonymous

“Poetry... It's a lot like prayer.”

— Wesley McNair

“No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many.”

— Thomas Lux

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

— Richard O'Brien

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I had been writing professionally since 1988

— Laura Hillenbrand

A lot of what I write is very personal.

— Elif Batuman

“History is written by the legends.”

— Evan Ricafort

My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.

— Taryn Manning

“Flash fiction is like a kiddie's pool for writers.”

— Neil Leckman

I have a reputation for writing all kinds of hard-core, violent things.

— Brian Azzarello

The first writers I knew about were Motown's Holland-Dozier-Holland.

— Lisa Stansfield

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

— Patti Smith

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

— Richard Russo

“Can I show all that I have written to my Beloved, the one for whom all I write is written?”

— Vipul Rikhi

Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“I should not like my writing to spare other people the trouble of thinking. But, if possible, to stimulate someone to thoughts…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my…

— Maya Angelou

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

— Erica Jong

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This…

— W. Somerset Maugham

You and you alone are the only person that can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to…

— Kerry Washington

In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.

— Vince Gilligan

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because…

— Terry Pratchett

I realized that I was writing about folks with lots of skills, especially fix-it skills and survival skills, who were nonetheless not…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

“I won't say that writing tamed the Black Beast. It soothed him, though, enough so he agreed simply to occupy a corner…

— Terri Cheney

When John Adams - when - James Madison was writing - pretty much writing the Constitution, he got a letter from Thomas…

— Nat Hentoff

As an ardent follower of the Blues it wasn't the done thing to own up to liking The Beatles but secretly I…

— David Essex

“In Writing: be attentive enough to detail to spell the person’s name correctly. My name is misspelled all the time; Ramsay with…

— Beth Ramsay

I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering…

— Rita Mae Brown

“And there are plays – and books and songs and poems and dances – that are perhaps upsetting or intricate or unusual,…

— David Mamet

Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address…

— Garrett Hedlund

Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on…

— Paul Robeson

When I left Yale, I was prepared to write anything.

— Mitch Leigh

I write what's given me to write.

— Philip Levine

I used to love writing in my journal.

— Tyra Banks

“Write is about explore the feelings”

— Shelly Fw

I can only write what I would be interested in.

— Lee Mack

Writers tend to feel like outsiders.

— Jesse Armstrong

I always write tons of different styles.

— Jeremy Camp

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

— Bernard Malamud